Das Beschäftigungssystem der DDR

Grünert, Holle

doi:10.1007/978-3-322-91437-8_2

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“…Mobility of labor between occupations and firms was not desired since it interfered with central planning and increased costs, and low labor mobility led to low residential mobility. Second, a dramatic shortage of housing depressed residential mobility further (Grünert 1996;Grünert, Bernien, and Lutz 1997;Grundmann 1998;Wolle 1998: 182-88;Uunk, Mach, and Mayer 2005). We therefore think it highly unlikely that the ignorability assumption is violated by spatial sorting.…”

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Opium for the Masses: How Foreign Media Can Stabilize Authoritarian Regimes

Kern

Hainmueller²

2009

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In this case study of the impact of West German television on public support for the East German communist regime, we evaluate the conventional wisdom in the democratization literature that foreign mass media undermine authoritarian rule. We exploit formerly classified survey data and a natural experiment to identify the effect of foreign media exposure using instrumental variable estimators. Contrary to conventional wisdom, East Germans exposed to West German television were more satisfied with life in East Germany and more supportive of the East German regime. To explain this surprising finding, we show that East Germans used West German television primarily as a source of entertainment. Behavioral data on regional patterns in exit visa applications and archival evidence on the reaction of the East German regime to the availability of West German television corroborate this result.

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Section: Threats To the Ignorability Assumptionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Opium for the Masses: How Foreign Media Can Stabilize Authoritarian Regimes

Kern

Hainmueller²

2009

Polit. anal.

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“…Also, workers were reluctant to leave firms as these had an important social function. Therefore, changes of the sectoral structure, which would have improved the competitiveness of the East German economy, did not take place (Grünert, 1996;Ritter, 2007). Finally, the rather small finance and insurance sector grew strongly, and the construction sector experienced a boom which lasted until 1996 when employment started to decrease again.…”

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The impact of a negative labor demand shock on fertility – Evidence from the fall of the Berlin Wall

Liepmann

2018

Labour Economics

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How does a negative labor demand shock impact individual-level fertility? I analyze this question in the context of the East German fertility decline after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Exploiting differential pressure for restructuring across industries, I find that throughout the 1990s, women more severely impacted by the demand shock had more children on average than their counterparts who were less severely impacted. I argue that in uncertain economic circumstances, women with relatively more favorable labor market outcomes postpone childbearing in order not to put their labor market situations at further risk. This mechanism is relevant for all qualification groups, including high-skilled women. There is some evidence for an impact on completed fertility.

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“…In a centrally planned economy such as the GDR, spatial mobility was seriously hampered; the allocation of labor as a factor of production had to follow the overarching social and economic objectives set by the planning committees. Mobility of labor across occupations and across space was therefore considerably lower than in any free-market economy, and was additionally reduced by the serious housing shortages that affected the GDR over the whole 40 years of its existence (Kern and Hainmueller, 2009, p. 387;Grünert, 1996).…”

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A Tear in the Iron Curtain: The Impact of Western Television on Consumption Behavior

Bursztyn

Cantoni

2016

Review of Economics and Statistics

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may AbstractThis paper examines the impact of exposure to foreign media on the economic behavior of agents in a totalitarian regime. We study private consumption choices focusing on former East Germany, where differential access to Western television was determined by geographic features. Using data collected after the transition to a market economy, we find no evidence of a significant impact of previous exposure to Western television on aggregate consumption levels. However, exposure to Western broadcasts affects the composition of consumption, biasing choices in favor of categories of goods with high intensity of pre-reunification advertisement. The effects vanish by 1998.

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Das Beschäftigungssystem der DDR

Cited by 8 publications

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Opium for the Masses: How Foreign Media Can Stabilize Authoritarian Regimes

Opium for the Masses: How Foreign Media Can Stabilize Authoritarian Regimes

The impact of a negative labor demand shock on fertility – Evidence from the fall of the Berlin Wall

A Tear in the Iron Curtain: The Impact of Western Television on Consumption Behavior

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